On Wednesday at least 2,000 exhausted and starving people waited in rice paddy fields at one border crossing for Bangladesh border guards to let them enter. The exodus of Rohingya Muslims started Aug. 25 when a group of insurgents attacked dozens of police posts in Myanmar. Since then, hundreds of Rohingya villages in Rakhine state have been set on fire. Fleeing Rohingya have told stories of arson and rape and shootings by Myanmar soldiers and Buddhist mobs. The violence, which the U.N. describes as ethnic cleansing, has pushed more than 600,000 Rohingya into Bangladesh.

Source: National Post November 01, 2017 16:30 UTC